Jaymann's Blog – June 2012 Archive (50)

Saturday, June 30, 2012: Just done our annual July 4th Al Vasys Noninvitational Volleyball Tournament. Great time despite the dehydration factor. By tourney’s end the clouds had edged in and the winds were honking from the south.

(ABOVE: FROM JINGLES WESITE – A SHOT-DEAD BEAUTIFUL FLUKE – and don’t give me that ”unfair” crap. You try jumping in the water, diving down, seeking and locating a fish to get a one-time shot at it – as opposed to drifting lazily along in a boat wating for a fish to latch.…

SIMPLY BASSING 2012It has been an interesting year for Simply Bassing. First I would like to thank all of you that signed up for this annual contest. This year was one of the highest amount of anglers that we have ever registered for this contest at Jingles Bait and Tackle.It was a year were bunker were not in abundance for anglers to snag and fish them live. It was a year to just…

Why won’t this storm let us be? Looking at the radar, just to our west are more deep orange and red splotches, headed our way. Oddly, all this stormage has been training north instead of going directly eastward and out to sea. That’s a suckacious set-up, leading to storm cell after storm cell.

There are actually so many things happening in the area I can’t even keep track of all the emergency transmissions…

UPDATE: Between the road flooding and the emergency vehicles, Ship Bottom south is screwed up royally – coming and going. Don’t even add to the mess by trying to get out. Crews are now out on the Causeway placing some better-late-than-never cones.

If you’re north of the Causeway, things are going along smoothly off the Island. Once off, you’re then on your own. At 3:30 things were…

The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has released its position statement in advance of the 83rd Meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) in La Jolla, California next week.

The position includes a call for a reduction in catches for bigeye tuna in the region, which is being overfished. ISSF also advocates for a catch limit, determined by each species stock evaluation and productivity, placed on the…